KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: A suicide car bomb in Mali aimed at a patrol of French soldiers killed four civilians in Gao, said officials. The suspected extremist attack is the third in three days. AMERICAS: Canada began imposing tariffs on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration’s new taxes on steel and

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: In Nigeria, former Taraba state governor Jolly Nyame was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 14 years in prison after a decade-long trial. AMERICAS: The Brazilian Supreme Court responded to calls for a military takeover made during a truckers’ strike by saying that democracy is “the only legitimate path” to overcome

KEY STORYLINES AFRICA: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya expressed concerned over escalating violence in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, some 800 km southwest of the capital Tripoli. AMERICAS: Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said that the trade imbalance between China and the US cannot and will not last in the